Favorite Quotes

Some of my favorites -

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein


“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Terry Pratchett


“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan


“In my opinion, we don’t devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
― Bill Watterson


“[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”
― Stephen Hawking


“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”
― Delos McKown


“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

  • Douglas Adams

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”

  • Douglas Adams

“Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.”

John Wayne

Not Wayne, but some other old movie.

John Wayne as SGT. STRYKER * Sands of Iwo Jima 1949

Don’t worry about avoiding temptation. As you get older, it will avoid you.

“Not everything on the internet is true” Abraham Lincoln.

Origins: The phrase “Life is hard; it’s harder when you’re stupid” (also variously rendered as “Life is hard; it’s even harder when you’re stupid” or “Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid”) has long been a favorite of
memists, nearly all of whom attribute the saying to iconic Western film actor John Wayne. It sounds like something the blunt-speaking Duke would have said, and that’s sufficient for most people. But John Wayne didn’t actually say this, either as a line of character dialogue in a film or speaking as himself.

This line has been claimed of various characters played by Wayne in a number of movies, most commonly the 1949 release Sands of Iwo Jima, in which Wayne portrayed the battle-hardened Marine sergeant John M. Stryker — the IMDb even lists this saying as one of the film’s memorable quotes. But no character in Sands of Iwo Jima, Sgt. Stryker or otherwise, speaks such a line. And no one has yet turned up a film clip or script documenting the phrase as something spoken by a Wayne character in any other movie.

So where did the phrase come from? Is it yet another great saying thought up by that witty sage, Anonymous?

The earliest known cinematic use of this thought (whatever its precise expression) appears in the 1973 crime film The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which was in turn based on the 1970 novel of the same name by George V. Higgins. The book’s title character is an aging, small-time criminal and informant who works as a gun runner in Boston’s Irish-American underworld; but it is another character, the young gun runner Jackie Brown, who ends up saying, “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.” That line comes through almost intact in the film version, rendered by actor Steven Keats (playing Jackie Brown) as “This life’s hard, man, but it’s harder if you’re stupid”:

Read more at 'Life Is Hard; It's Even Harder When You're Stupid' | Snopes.com

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

“Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet. - Michael J. Gelb
Actually, I think most of us are being taken for a ride.

It may be your motto but it is not your quote. :slight_smile:

just so we are clear:

its from

Siddhartha Gautama

He said the same thing many different ways so on that note

Do not go by revelation;
Do not go by tradition;
Do not go by hearsay;
Do not go on the authority of sacred texts;
Do not go on the grounds of pure logic;
Do not go by a view that seems rational;
Do not go by reflecting on mere appearances;
Do not go along with a considered view because you agree with it;
Do not go along on the grounds that the person is competent;
Do not go along because “the recluse is our teacher.”
Kalamas, when you yourselves know: These things are unwholesome, these things are blameworthy; these things are censured by the wise; and when undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill, abandon them…
Kalamas, when you know for yourselves: These are wholesome; these things are not blameworthy; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness, having undertaken them, abide in them.
Kalama Sutta - Angutarra Nikaya 3.65

Just rereading a few. Actually I think he’s right, we are the key but the locks are hidden behind a veil of apathy and fear.

i think the social issues (including apathy and fear) are the locks and its up to us to find the keys to conquering them

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Dr Seuss

From here on BLF in the thread :
Pop/soda can aluminum

“If you find yourself in a dark room with molten aluminum… hold very still… and re-evaluate your decision-making ability.”

- Joshk

“Nil Carborundum Illegitamae.”
-Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

Was a favourite of one of my teachers.

“A genius is essentially a non-conformist.”
Max Rafferty- “Suffer Little Children”

It’s like deja-vu, all over again.
Yogi B.

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa

Everywhere I go, there I am.

Give a man a fish, you”ll have one less fish.
-The “bad quotes” Safe Auto commercial

I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.